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Hello and welcome to our website! Thanks for visiting. We are a duo based in Lincoln, and sing Americana, folk-country songs in close harmony. You can book us for events, pub gigs, weddings and private parties. We are also available for vocal harmony workshops. Just get in contact for further information and prices and read our bio to find out more about where we've performed previously.

We will be supporting the wonderful Sara Grey & Keiran Means at Faldingworth. Should be a great night of toe-tapping and haunting American songs and tunes. Check out Sara and Kieron's website: http://www.saragrey.net/ and have a listen. Fab rhythms and exquisite harmonies! Faldingworth website: www.faldingworthlive.org. Tickets for the event are available here.

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It's finally here! Our new album 'Brave Unbeaten Paths' is now available for sale!

The album features 10 newly recorded tracks including covers such as 'Under a Stormy Sky', 'Hickory Wind' and 'The River' and original songs including 'I Sing', 'Waltzing Again', 'One To Stay' and Song for Lincolnshire 2016 winner 'White Mercury'. We couldn't be more pleased with the final product and thrilled that we can share it with you all. We've got so many amazing people to thank including Rob Pomeroy and Daniel Bancroft for their unwavering support and formatting and photography skills and the amazing Roger Jackson who produced, mixed and mastered the music and added some beautiful touches on mandolin, accordeon and percussion.

The launch at the Drill Hall, Lincoln went superbly and it was pleasure to play to a lively and kind crowd. If you'd like a CD perhaps for yourself or to purchase as gifts for friends and family for the festive season just send us a message with your address. CDs are £10 (+ £1 postage) and we take payment via bacs and cheque. If you let us know by Wednesday 20th, royal mail will deliver by Christmas!

Meanwhile, we wish you a peaceful and happy yuletide and are so looking forward to working on our next body of work and treading further along these 'brave unbeaten paths' in the new year. Love, Ishani and Sue xx

If you have never been to a 'Sorefingers' course weekend or week, you won't understand. You see, the trouble with any ‘Sorefingers’ experience is that life afterwards seems a terrible bore in comparison to the heavenly harmony we enjoyed this weekend. Fortunately, as a singer, you’re ideally placed to exorcise the blues by...well - singing them, I suppose.

The organisation known as 'Sorefingers Summer Schools (SFSS)' has been running music workshops for bluegrass instruments for over 20 years now. It is hard to describe how marvellous it is. Set in the middle of the Cotswolds, banjos, dobros, fiddles, mandolins, bases, autoharps, singers and guitars meet up (along with the people who play them) to learn how to play better from the masters. Many of the tutors at the Easter week come from across the Atlantic to teach and are completely inspirational. Student 'scratch' bands form and some of them stick together afterwards. Lots of people 'jam' in the bar. Some dancing is usually involved. Maybe some drinking.

We were tutoring at their taster weekend this weekend just gone and we had blast! The students were simply amazing. Thanks for the experience and check it out for yourselves. There is a (near) week of heavenly singing and playing, jamming in the bar, and world class concerts to go to in April (1st-7th). Just click on:

Well here we are (or there we were - yesterday) at the fantastic Lichfield Folk Festival - run by the amazing Lichfield Arts team. It's probably the most welcoming festival I've ever been to (Patron John Tams was right, by gum!). The Guildhall was beautiful, the people in the audience and the folk at the bar were so lovely... and we had a great time, of course! Great to meet Steve Plowright, Merry Hell, A Different Thread and Sammy Carter and the Vagabond Collective among others. Thanks so much for looking after us so well Dave, Liz, Steve and other countless kind souls from the Lichfield Arts team. Troopers, every one!

Here's a picture of us when we were recording on October 1st with the marvellous Roger Jackson: he's a sound engineer, composer, choir director, musician,...he also took this photo! Is there nowt he cannot do? Oops double negative! We're happy...as you can see!

We've just spent a very productive weekend working on our second CD, which are pleased to say will contain our own original material. For anyone who has ever recorded, this is a thoroughly exhausting process, but we are feeling great about the new material.

Now time for some serious zzzzzzzzz

Hope to see you at The Strugglers next week (8th October) when hopefully I will be more awake!

Thanks for continuing to follow our progress. We are haivng a lot of fun playing in all sorts of different places, but are delighted to return to The Strugglers' Inn, in Lincoln on Sunday 8th October. This is a particularly warm-hearted pub and the Sunday music slot seems pretty special - one of those rare places where there is a real established community feel but if you're new through the door it feels welcoming too.

The music starts at 5ish and continues till 7.30/8 ish, with breaks in between. We hope to see you there!

Next weekend we are doing some recording with the hope of putting together a second CD. This will be such fun and I hope not too frustrating - as ever we're going for a live and 'honest' sound rather than multi-tracking the wotsits out of the music... watch this space!

We are always completely bowled over by your lovely comments. We're delighted that many of you seem to like what we do. Please come and have a chat when you see us perform - it's great to relax in the middle of a show and get to know you a little more. See you soon, we hope!

We'd just like to thank those of you who have given us such positive words of encouragement at our recent gigs. We had an absolute blast at the Adam and Eve this Saturday and Leadenham Day of Folk today was great fun too. It was great to see it so busy - and so much musical talent. Very well done to Tom and the team for such a well organised event.

Our next gig is 19th August at the Victoria Inn - please come along and tell your friends too. We'd love to see you there.

Last weekend we played at Orwell Bluegrass Festival at Orwell, Suffolk. It's such an amazing festival. The site is a large Scout camp, and at this time of year, there are fields and fields of yellow oil seed and blue bell woods, leading down to the estuary and out to sea (if you like)...The gang of kids we fed and housed between us all more or less were left to their own devices, and at times we found them at the tops of impossibly tall trees (which was a bit nerve-wracking). Gosh, put it in your diary and take the trip next year. Chris and his team do a fantastic job.

We ate like kings (or queens, I suppose)... and our souls were fed on the most exquisitely beautiful music. Watch out for 'The Midnight Skyracers' (all girl bluegrass band - absolutely stunning musicianship and SUCH fun!) And 'Shooting Stars' (the coollest suits in town). They were the best entertainment I've seen in ages. Great music. We felt really privileged to be among these giants of musical wow-manship.

We played on Saturday afternoon to a packed marquee-tent. We had a great time and the audience told us they loved it too. Monday was hard...I love my job, but sunny Suffolk with hundreds of friends (felt like I knew everybody, almost) takes a lot of beating. Wish it lasted at least a week.

Next gig at the lovely Victoria in Lincoln, with the added bonus of not being 3 hours' drive away. Saturday 27th May. Hope to see some of you there!Suex

We had a blast at the Vic on Saturday night! If you were there, thank you for being such a great audience. The backing singing to 'True Colours' was much appreciated! Thanks again and see you again at the Vic in May, maybe? Please check out our new Youtube channel for a couple of new-ish tracks. As you can see, when we're not in the pub, we like singing in the kitchen!

If you can't wait till May, we're also playing at 1 this Saturday (25th March) to support the fabulous artwork of Les Brown at the Sam Scorer gallery, Lincoln.

Here comes summer. We're very happy about that. Have a good one everyone! :)